Example sentences of "and [noun prp] [noun] [vb past] [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1225 the loss of Poitiers and La Rochelle made it the effective capital of the remaining Plantagenet dominions . |
| 2 | His cheesecutter hat and Burberry overcoat gave him the look of a working class spiv . |
| 3 | Match referee Deryck Murray confiscated the match ball after umpires John Hampshire and Ken Palmer showed him the scarred leather . |
| 4 | He paid his rent , and Mr Carnford gave him the name of an old servant to look after him . |
| 5 | She fumbled for a handkerchief without success — and Elizabeth Mowbray handed her the capacious lace-edged one she wore for decoration at her girdle . |
| 6 | Boris Anrep , for instance , whom the Berkeleys used to encounter when they stayed with Maud Russell at Mottisfont , gave them the model he painted for the mosaics which were intended for the apse of Westminster Cathedral ( it stands on the chest of drawers in their bedroom ) and Hugh Honour and John Fleming gave them the marble hermaphrodite which reclines on the top of a bookcase in the study . |